By Salvatore Babones It’s back to school this week for most of Australia’s 1.5 million university students—and back to Canberra for Australia’s top 1000 education bureaucrats. Universities Australia is holding its annual Solutions Summit this week in Canberra. The jamboree kicks off today with a session on “Putting First Nations at the heart of higher
Recently, Canadian news outlet ‘The Globe and Mail’ provoked controversy and furious social media discussions with one of its analyses. In it, the author asserted that, based on per capita GDP adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), Canada was now poorer than the U.S. state of Alabama. According to IMF figures, Canada’s per capita GDP
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - UK Defense Secretary John Healey said that he wants to be the first in the role to send British troops to Ukraine.
"I want to be the Defence Secretary who deploys British troops to Ukraine – because this will mean that this war is finally over," Healey wrote in a comment published in the Telegraph newspaper on Saturday.
Plans to develop a 300 MW wind farm in Central Tasmania have approved by the federal environment minister, after nearly seven years in the EPBC queue.
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Real per capita household disposable income is arguably the single best measure of material living standards. The OECD has released cross-country data on real per capita household disposable income for the third quarter of 2025. According to the OECD, Australia has recorded the smallest increase in real per capita household disposable income among major English-speaking
The 900MW project made it almost all the way through the federal environmental assessment process, but pulled up stumps before seeking state planning permits.
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State EPA orders coal mining company to pay major fines and penalties for dumping untreated water into a river near the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.
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If the shareholders in network monopolies aren’t prepared to wear the core and highly obvious risks associated with their business, why did we privatise these things in the first place?
I only recently discovered that, like Cory Bernardi in early 20171, Gerard Rennick had been dumped from a winnable seat in the Senate, and had got the hump and attempted, also like Bernardi, unsuccessfully to set up his own party, to try to hang onto his political ‘career’. Rennick, the Queensland Liberal National Party (LNP) senator was dumped from a winnable spot on the party’s Queensland ticket in July 2023 in a preselection punch up. Senators Paul Scarr and Susan McDonald were preselected, as expected, in the top two spots.
State Labor government says its 100 Neighbourhood Batteries Program will soon have delivered 139 batteries across the state.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the chief instruments of global capital, has been calling on China for some time to reorient its economic policies and reduce its reliance on exports, with the implied threat there will be retaliation from other major powers if it does not do so.
IMF calls on China to restructure its economy
by Nick Beams